Safety railroad stop



I Jan. 9, 1923.

J. G. MILLHOUSE ET AL. SAFETY RAILROAD STOP ORIGINAL FILEDJAN. 7. 1921.

Patented Jan... 9, i923.

than 1 JOHN G. IVIILEHOUSE, 0F IJITCHFIELD; AND FRED W. SCHNEIDER. AN-D" RICHARD 1 FAB;TJER-, OF NOKOMIS, ILLINOIS. I

SAFETY RAILROAD STOP.

, Application filed Janeary- 7, 1921, Serial No. 435,735. 'Renewea November 20, 19221 T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN G. Miimnonsn, FRED N. Sonnnmnn, and RICHARD FARMER, citizens of the United States, and residents, respectively, of the city of Litchfield, in the county of Montgomery, in the State of Illinois, and of the city of- Nokomis, in the county of Montgomery and State of Illinois (whose post-office addresses are, res ectively, Litchfield, Illinois, and okomis llinois), have invented a new and useful Safety Railroad Stop, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements of railroad car stops and objects of our improvement are to produce a safety railroad car stop that can be readily put in place on the rail and one that can be very easily removed after the car has beenstopped by it and one that is simple in design, effective in operation and inexpensive to produce.

We attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a vertical cross sectional View of our invention along a line AB of F igure 3.

Figure 2 is an elevation of our invention in operation stopping a car.

Figure 3 is an end view of Figure 2.

Figure 4: is an elevation of our invention showing it in its elevated position by means of which it is removed from the car wheel.

Figure 5 is an end view of Figure L Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the several views 1 represents the rail, 2 is an I-shaped member having one side of the I registering on the rail and the other side of the I shape extending upwards having the apertures shown, through which passes a pin 3 which is retained in position by the spring cotter pins 4. J ournaled on pin 3 is a lever 5 having a handle 6 which can be made long for convenience in lifting. 1n the forward end of the lever are the apertures shown. In the upper one of these apertures is fastened pin 7 by means of the spring cotter pin 8. J ournaled on the ends of the pin 7 is the U-shaped member 9 whose sides are triangular in shape and each of which has notch 10 cut into same which when the device is in position'to stop a car register with the pin 3 as shown in Figure 2. Removably fastened to 2 by means of bolts and nuts 11 is a tongue 12 which when the device is in its stopping position is between the rail and the car wheel 13 as shown in Figure 2.

In operation our safety stop. is placed on the rail with the lever handle 6 down as shown in Figure 2 at a, point where the car is to be positioned and the car started and pushed toward it, when the wheel 13 will mount the tongue l2'and strike the U-shaped member 9, and thus to move the car any farther it must slide the entire safety stop along the rail which stops the car. To remove the safety stop it is only necessary to put a long pipe on the handle 6 and simply raise it to the position shown in Figure 4 when the Ushaped member 9 acts like a car mover and pushes the car along the tongue and on the track when the safety stop can be removed.

It is evident from the above description that our device is very simple and effective in operation and inexpensive to construct and that it can easily be handled by one man.

It will be understood, of course, that while we have here shown one form of our invention we do not want to be limited to the exact form shown, but wish to have it taken in a sense illustrative of any and all forms of our invention as may be set forth in the appended claims.

We claim 1. In a safety railroad car stop, a suitably shaped frame having apertures, a projecting member mounted in said frame, which rests on the rail and carries the car wheel, a pin mounted in said apertures, a suitably shaped lever journaled on said pin and a suitably shaped member journaled on said lever coacting with said frame.

2. In a safety railroad car stop, a suitably shaped frame having apertures, a projecting member removably mounted in said frame, which rests on the rail and Carries the car wheel, a pin mounted in said apertures, a suitably shaped lever journaled on said pin and a suitably shaped member journaled on said lever co-acting with said frame.

3. In a safety railroad car stop, a suitably shaped frame having apertures, a projecting member mounted in said frame, which rests on the rail and carries the car wheel, a pin mounted in said apertures, a suitably shaped lever journaled on said pin and a suitably shaped member ournaled on said lever Whose outer end remains in contact with said frame.

4. In asafety railroad car stop, a suitably shaped frame having apertures, a projecting member removably mounted in said frame which rests on the rail and carries the car Wheel, a pin mounted in said apertures, a.

suitably shaped lever journaled on said pin and a suitably shaped member journaled on said lever Whose outer end remains in contact with said frame.

In a safety railroad car stop, a member having apertures which register with rail, a projection from said member which registers with the car Wheel tread, pin mounted in said apertures, a suitably shaped lever journaled on said pin and a suitably shaped 

